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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aikidoka" data-source="post: 1376277" data-attributes="member: 3768">I never hassled my boyfriend into coming out birding with me, but he's always been up for a country walk and has now become quite into birding through his burgeoning interest in photography - birds and other wildlife make a suitably challenging subject for him. He has a very good eye and his ID skills are improving - most importantly he's starting to really enjoy the birds themselves. It delighted me no end to see him enthusing over scope views of a roosting Long-eared Owl the other day, even though it was too dark for him to get any decent photos.My advice - don't take the partner on twitches or down the dump to count gulls, and if you can, go somewhere where there will be deer/rabbits/foxes/seals/any mammals to see as well, because the average person is much more excited by mammals than birds. I wrote something on this subject for Birdwatch magazine a while ago - it's a problem a lot of us face...</blockquote>